Following indications yesterday that more accounts were being granted access to the Diablo III beta test, the Diablo III Website announces the beta will indeed be opened this weekend to anyone with a Battle.net account for stress testing. The open portion of the beta will begin at 3:00 pm EDT today and will run through Monday at 1:00 pm EDT. The accompanying FAQ explains how this will operate, and notes that while Korean players cannot participate, they will be holding a separate invitation-only event in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The invitation only closed beta will continue as planned until May 1st. To get a head start, you can download the client now from Battle.net.

StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 23, 2012, 14:28:God I hate how Steam sales have ruined the value of games. OMG it's a year old it isn't worth shit! How silly...

That's just a value perception issue and it's not because "Steam sales ruined" anything. Amazon (PC and console) and things like free to play games have a lot more power in this regard. One could argue more frequent sales promotions are due to the massive volume of quality titles on the market and downloadable content effectively increasing the price to own for many buyers. Publishers discount more often on digital PC platforms (not just Steam) because they see large sales spikes, it's a different market than on the consoles so they have to approach it in a different manner - particularly when they allocate no marketing to it.